When a pol mentions his family as the reason for retirement, you know he has big troubles and was probably forced out.
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Now Rahm Emanuel's entree into the top echelons of the federal govt are paved with his past victories: 4-term Congressman Rahm was beatified as the man who masterminded the Congress and WH takeover together with his Chicago pal, David Axelrod.
Rahm ran a political action committee laughingly called "Our Common Values PAC."
In 2005 he chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 2006-07. Rahm had Dems winning in solid Republican districts running as "true believers." Rahm and Axelrod had Maoist mau mau Ohaha himself win by deceiving voters, saying things like, "I want to be another Reagan."
FAST FORWARD TO 2010 Democrats face a series of dramatic defeats at every level of government in Washington and beyond in Nov midterms, according to leading analysts and opinion polls. The U of Virginia’s widely monitored Crystal Ball forecasts sweeping setbacks on Capitol Hill and the loss of a clutch of state governorships Nov 2.
Such is the scale of the expected losses, that according to local polls, Democrats are on course to lose the governorships of left-leaning states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania..............and may be vulnerable in Illinois, long a Dem party bastion, and home to Ohaha and his WH crew.
" Holy Allah. Illinois? Gone? Get that little twerp Rahm in here. He'll pay for this."